On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, Greg KH wrote:> You brought this topic up a few months ago, and passed it off as> something we would discuss at the kernel summit. But that never> happened, so I figured I'd bring it up again here.> > So, as someone who constantly is dealing with kernel version numbers all> the time with the -stable trees, our current numbering scheme is a pain> a times. How about this proposal instead?

> Any thoughts?> > Let the bike-shedding begin!

What about just using the git SHA1?

Advantages: - We're all getting older. Training our memory to remember SHA1 IDs is actually good for us! - Perhaps Google will finally start tracking git commits, so I can feed them a git commit ID mentioned in a random email and find the actual commit, without having to know to which repository it belongs?